Nurses now play a significant role in all healthcare systems. Nurses' career planning and advancement should be targeted and specific to improve professional conditions and quality of care. To investigate the relationship between career planning and career advancement. A descriptive correlational research design was utilized to conduct this study. all in-patient care units in Shoubrakhit General Hospital. included all professional nurses who were working in the previously selected settings (n= 115). Two tools were used in order to conduct this study: Career Planning Scale and Factors Affecting Recruitment and Career Advancement Questionnaire. The finding of this study revealed that the vast majority of the studied nurses had a good level of career planning. The highest career planning levels were related to self-knowledge. The highest facilitating factors for career advancement were educational qualifications. The highest constraining factors for career advancement were sexual harassment. There was statistically significant positive low correlation between nurses' level of career planning and total factors affecting career advancement (r= 0.214, p= 0.022). add policies that facilitate and foster nurses career planning and advancement as, nursing education policies training polices, objective appointment and promotion policies. In addition, integrate the concept of career planning and career advancement into the curriculum of undergraduate and postgraduate to raise the awareness of future nurses toward their career path. Also, Conduct frequent training programs and series of workshops on career planning and career advancement.